I was just going to ask, if and when, devs plan to add the Colonel pvp gear.

Yeah, me either.

Having to go full PVE to be remotely competitive in PVP is not what I expected from Prime.
Back in vanilla, I loved farming PVP gear, and the system requiring to have the lower piece to buy the next one was cool.The R8 gear was kind of OP though.

I ditched almost all my PVP, though in some WF (week-end ones) the scaling made the "trash" PVP weapon competitive.